Settlement vs. environmental dynamics in a pelagic-spawning reef fish at Caribbean Panama

Ecological Monographs

Volumn 69, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 195-218

  Robertson, D Ross ^a   Swearer, Stephen E ^b   Kaufmann, Karl ^a   Brothers, Edward B ^c  

^a SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c EFS Consultants   (United States)

Author keywords

Caribbean; Environmental dynamics; Labrid fish; Lunar effects; Pelagic spawning; Seasonality; Settlement dynamics; Thalassoma; Tidal effects; Wind effects

Indexed keywords

FISH; MORTALITY; REEF; SETTLING BEHAVIOR;

CARRIBBEAN PANAMA; CENTRAL AMERICA; SAN BLAS;

ANIMALIA; LABRIDAE; THALASSOMA; THALASSOMA BIFASCIATUM;

EID: 0032941562     PISSN: 00129615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9615(1999)069[0195:SVEDIA]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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